The two articles (Harvey Silverglate, "Whitey Bulger and the Feds," page 10, and David Boeri, "Hollow Justice," Page 11, Boston Phoenix, October 5, 2011) explain that John Durham, the special prosecutor brought in to "clean up" the Boston FBI cesspool, was a company man and did his job of convicting one man. Silverglate raises the obvious question about the dedication of the current US Attorney to convict Bulger. Boeri questions the usual lack of diligence of the FBI director to clean house.
It is nonsense and irrational to think (1) that only one FBI agent was able to corrupt local and state police officers and many politicians who remain silent to this day; and (2) that Bulger and Flemmi ran the rackets in Boston alone. Hundreds of associates remain active operating the same dirty businesses that Bulger and the FBI ran and protected. Clueless taxpayers are mislead by politicians, police and journalists who promote a fantasy reality.
Without bright lights on all the government mechanisms in MA, criminals will continue to control the state. Institutional wholesale theft, abuses of the criminal justice system and homicides will go unpunished. Only defense attorney Anthony Cardinale who made the original motion before Judge Wolf recognized and exposed the abuses of the FBI informant program. Cardinale says the upper echelon informant program was shut down.
But the same criminal abuses continue among the Witness Security program. Criminals with changed names and protected by the FBI and the US Marshals run criminal enterprises with no accountability. FBI agents and their criminal witnesses target vulnerable civilians. The focus of Bulger and the Boston FBI was to eliminate Italian crime families to allow Bulger and his Irish acolytes to control the Boston rackets.
The upper levels of the FBI and the Dept. of Justice are no less corrupt. How many US Attorneys in the 1980s are now judges and high level FBI supervisors in DC? The cesspool will never be cleaned up without a citizen commission with subpoena power. Why is Harvard Law School, The Harvard School of Government and the other four law schools in Boston and the other government schools silent about this abomination of thorough government pollution?
Ken Burns says Fiorello LaGuardia knew it would take 250,000 officers to police the 250,000 officers needed to stop illegal alcohol in New York City. According to the same PBS feature, Boston had hardly any crime during Prohibition. There was no mention of the major Boston bootlegger, Joseph P. Kennedy father of the President and US senators. Hello? Anybody home?
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/127965-whitey-bulger-and-the-feds-the-final-act/
Whitey Bulger and the Feds: The final act
Choosing the slow grind: Why are we trying Whitey in federal court, when state courts would deliver justice more swiftly?
By HARVEY A. SILVERGLATE
October 5, 2011
Boston Phoenix
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http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/127938-hollow-justice/
Hollow justice
The FBI might have got its man, but anyone seeking real accountability from Whitey Bulger's government enablers will come away empty-handed yet again
By DAVID BOERI
October 5, 2011
Boston Phoenix
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